Monday at home

Definitely at home, because I left my wallet in Beast's car, so I have no money and no driver's license.

That's actually ok, because the house is a mess and there are a bunch of things I need to get done here today. The laundry is nearly done...although somehow, when I switched the last time, I neglected to turn the water on, so the load wasn't done at 10:30 when I went to move it to the dryer. There was a moment of "Wow--it really spun ALL the water out this time" before I realized we were talking about jeans. Not possible. I'm a dork.

Normally, this is finished by Saturday night, but Beast was building walls in the basement over the weekend and he just ran out of time. So, for the first time in several months I'm doing laundry. This is good; I just removed several items from Sparky's clean laundry, items he shouldn't be wearing anymore (too small).

Meanwhile, I've been meming and checking Christmas card addresses and eating Multi-Grain Wheat Thins and Kaukauna Parmesan Ranch soft cheese--which is so new it's not even on their website. It's good, though.

There are lots of things on my list to finish this afternoon, all of them boring, many of them Christmas-related; for instance, I must write the Dreaded Christmas Letter: "This was a horrible year: Beast spent it in Pain and in The Hospital; Cat. spent in the the States of Worry and Chaos and her mother nearly drove her nuts; Sparky is in the middle of Hormones. Merry Christmas! Ho ho ho."

Maybe we should forgo that step this year...?

I have, however, nearly finished my shopping list for gifts (good thing, since I'm shopping tomorrow!).

Oh how I wish I could be reading Diana Gabaldon...but nope. Nose to the grindstone and all that. Huh.